Data Center

Verizon has been using fuel cell technology to power a 290,000 square foot facility in Garden City, N.Y., on Long Island.

The National Security Agency's technology infrastructure at Fort Meade, Md. has reportedly maxed out the electric capacity of the Baltimore area power grid.

A Silicon Valley testbed achieves 20 percent power savings through the use of DC power distribution in a data center. But is the industry ready for the switch to all-DC facilities.

Enterprises are all over the map in their responses to rising costs and power consumption, according to an AMD survey.

SeaLand, the offshore digital data haven, has been badly damaged by fire.

As memory consumes a growing component of server power usage, vendors are busy developing energy-efficient memory products.

Flickr is having performance problems due to "massive internal network problems at the primary Flickr data center."

Power usage for Akamai installations at the NAP of the Americas in Miami run as high 386 watts per square foot.

Can Second Life's infrastructure scale along with its buzz? Infrastructure pundits ponder the relative merits of traditional realms vs. the SL grid.

Carnegie Mellon has created the Data Center Observatory, which will conduct research on data center cooling and power.